@Rich. Agreed but I guess part of my point was that if the data had been out there, or if people thought it was valuable, then solutions and formats would have been found. NMR machines would all pump out a single format data file because they would have to. But the tools are critical. One thing that is interesting is how bad the file formats in bioinformatics are. Everything pretty much is in flat text files and we are starting to pay the price for that in some areas.